June 17, 1905

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The Submarine Boat Disasters

Fast Long-Distance Trains

Ventilation of the Subway

The Effect of the War on Naval Construction

New Method of Milk Analysis by Centrifugal Apparatus

Loss of Heat in Steam

A Vagary of the Russian Press Censor

The Current Supplement

An Explanation of Ice Caves

Selection of Transmission Voltages

By Alton D. Adams

The Alvares Aeroplane Flying Machine

By the English Correspondent of the Scientific American

The Creation of Life by Artificial Means

By Enos Brown

On a Process of Measuring Nervous Susceptibility

By Alfred Gradenwitz

Mines and Entanglements in the Russo-Japanese War

A Model Photographic Laboratory

By C. H. Claudy

A Power Brake and Whistle for Automobiles

Some Unusual Discoveries of Variable Stars at Harvard Observatory

By G. A. Thompson

The Capillary Motor

By Alfred Gradenwitz

A Novel Reflecting Lantern

A Beehive Incubator

A 750-Ton Metal Mixer

Business and Personal Wants

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Recently Patented Inventions - June 17, 1905

Notes and Queries - June 17, 1905

Index of Inventions - June 17, 1905

New Books, Etc. - June 17, 1905

Patents - June 17, 1905

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